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Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China

Slashdot.org - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 11:01
Microsoft announced last month that Chinese state-sponsored hackers exploited vulnerabilities in SharePoint to breach hundreds of companies and government agencies, including the National Nuclear Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security. The company omitted that SharePoint support is handled by China-based engineers who have maintained the software for years. ProPublica reviewed screenshots of Microsoft's internal systems showing China-based employees recently fixing bugs for SharePoint "OnPrem," the version targeted in the attacks. Microsoft told the publication that the China-based team operates under U.S. supervision and the company is relocating this work.

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GoogleBlog - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 11:00
Kaggle Game Arena is a new platform where AI models compete head-to-head in complex strategic games.Kaggle Game Arena is a new platform where AI models compete head-to-head in complex strategic games.
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Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says

Slashdot.org - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 10:20
AI startup Perplexity is deploying undeclared web crawlers that masquerade as regular Chrome browsers to access content from websites that have explicitly blocked its official bots, according to a Cloudflare report published Monday. When Perplexity's declared crawlers encounter robots.txt restrictions or network blocks, the company switches to a generic Mozilla user agent that impersonates "Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" running on macOS, the web infrastructure firm reported. Cloudflare engineers tested the behavior by creating new domains with robots.txt files prohibiting all automated access. Despite the restrictions, Perplexity provided detailed information about the protected content when queried, while the stealth crawler generated 3-6 million daily requests across tens of thousands of domains. The undeclared crawler rotated through multiple IP addresses and network providers to evade detection.

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NotebookLM is now available to younger users.NotebookLM is now available to younger users.Group Product Manager

GoogleBlog - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 10:00
NotebookLM is now available for younger users to help them learn, study and understand their class materials. They can now:Turn their notes into a podcast-like Audio Ove…
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